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➢ Health Canada has issued a recall for several types of hand sanitizers that may cause dry, cracking skin or irritation.
The recall impacts hand sanitizers that contain industrial-grade ethanol, a product which has not been authorized for use in hand sanitizers in Canada, meaning it has not been reviewed by Health Canada for safety or efficacy.
The affected products include Eltraderm Hand Sanitizer – 70 % Ethyl Alcohol, Contract Packaging Distributions Inc. Hand Sanitizer, Nature’s Own Cosmetic Company Inc. Gel 700 Hand Sanitizer, Sanilabs Hand Sanitizer 70% Ethanol, and Walker Emulsions Hand Sanitizer.
Canadians are asked to stop using the products, properly dispose the materials, and to consult a healthcare professional if you have used these products and have health concerns.
➢ Even if there WASN’T a pandemic making face-to-face contact risky, I think I’d still love this idea. A butcher in Rochester, New York is using a refrigerated VENDING MACHINE to sell his cuts of MEAT. And he says it’s so popular he has to restock it multiple times a day.
He keeps it open 24 hours for people who want to buy some no-contact meat at off hours.
➢ Belmont Park in Mission Beach, San Diego, has put some big stuffed animals on its roller coaster called The Giant Dipper. Park officials say the maintenance crew got tired of running the coaster without passengers, so last week they decided to load the 95-year-old ride up with stuffed animals. The coaster has not seen human passengers since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The park’s general manager, Steve Thomas, says, “We have to keep the coaster running on a daily basis, so why not have a little fun with it. People are loving it.”
➢ Apparently, the hottest new trend in massage is . . . MEAT CLEAVER MASSAGES.
That’s where you lie down and a masseuse whacks your back with two dull meat cleavers over and over. Apparently it feels good and there’s some spiritual “energy” stuff involved in the process.
You have a towel over you, so it’s not blade-on-skin, and the cleavers are dull . . . but STILL.
The massages have been popular in Taiwan for quite a while, but lately, they’ve been popping up all over the world. The most popular spot for these massages in Taiwan says they’ve never had a client injured in their 40-year history.
➢ Kristen Bell talked to “Entertainment Tonight” about life in quarantine, and said homeschooling her kids still sucks.
TODAY IS……………….
- “Best Friend Day”, a day to salute our BFFs for being there … when nobody else is.
1984 [36] The legendary supernatural comedy film “Ghostbusters”, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, is released
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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
George Strait‘s Blue Clear Sky is No. 1 on country radio in 1996.
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Are Your Brushing, Flossing, and Using Mouthwash in the Right Order? Probably Not
A woman’s TikTok video on the “right” way to clean your teeth recently went viral. And even if you brush, floss, and use mouthwash, you might still be doing it wrong. According to dentists, the ORDER you do them in matters too . . .
Most people who do all three brush first, then floss, then use mouthwash. But the right way is the exact opposite of that. Here’s the correct order . . .
- Rinse with mouthwash first. If you do it last, it washes away the fluoride from your toothpaste. And you want that fluoride to stay in there to prevent tooth decay.
- Floss. If you’re already doing it before you brush, you’re doing that part right.
- Brush your teeth last. If you do it before you floss, some of the food particles that were between your teeth might still be in your mouth. So brushing last is best.
In the video, there’s also a fourth step where they say to rinse with a whitening fluoride mouthwash. But someone talked to an expert who said to skip that step. Don’t rinse with anything, including water.
FOUR RANDOM FACTS
- Violins made by Antonio Stradivariare the most expensive in the world . . . but he also made a small number of guitars. And there’s only one left in existence.
- The guy who invented glow sticks didn’t know they were popular at concerts and festivals until 2013.
- When Milton Bradleyinvented the Game of Life in 1860, one of the possible outcomes was suicide.
- There are 4,700 species of frogs, and only one makes a “ribbit” sound. But we associate it with all frogs, because the frog that “ribbits” is native to California, so it’s the one that sound engineers originally recorded for movies.
GOOD NEWS
Three Cape Breton musicians used their talents to spread joy at a Nova Scotia long-term care home. Maybelle Chisholm McQueen has been playing piano in public since she was 10 and has performed all over the world, including at Carnegie Hall with fiddler Ashley MacIsaac.
The 83-year-old lives at a long-term care home in Inverness, N.S.
Due to restrictions in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the home is unable to welcome outside visitors. Last Friday, Colin and fellow musician Chrissy Crowley decided they would grab their instruments and pay Maybelle a physically-distant visit.
On one side of the gate, Maybelle was set up with her keyboard, while Colin and Chrissy were on the other side with their fiddles. Maybelle says the visit meant a lot to her, admitting it can be lonely living in long-term care during COVID-19.
“I was so happy to have them with me, very, very happy to have them with me,” says Maybelle.
“They’re two darlings in my books and they’re good players.”
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BIRTHDAYS
[80] Nancy Sinatra, singer
[54] Julianna Margulies, actress (“The Good Wife” 2009-16, “ER” 1994-2000)
Multimillionaire Forrest Fenn’s treasure hidden, worth $1M, found in Rocky Mountains
Famed art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn, who hid $1 million in treasure in the Rocky Mountain wilderness a decade ago, said Sunday that the chest of goods has been found.
Fenn, says that a treasure hunter located the chest a few days ago.
“The guy who found it does not want his name mentioned. He’s from back East,” Fenn said, adding that it was confirmed from a photograph the man sent him. Fenn did not reveal exactly where it had been hidden.
Fenn posted clues to the treasure’s whereabouts online and in a 24-line poem that was published in his 2010 autobiography “The Thrill of the Chase.”
Hundreds of thousands have hunted in vain across remote corners of the U.S. West for the bronze chest believed to be filled with gold coins, jewelry and other valuable items.
Many quit their jobs to dedicate themselves to the search and others depleted their life savings. At least four people died searching for it.
Fenn, who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico said he hid his treasure as a way to tempt people to get into the wilderness and give them a chance to launch an old-fashioned adventure and expedition for riches.
For more than a decade, he packed and repacked his treasure chest, sprinkling in gold dust and adding hundreds of rare gold coins and gold nuggets. Pre-Columbian animal figures went in, along with prehistoric “mirrors” of hammered gold, ancient Chinese faces carved from jade and antique jewelry with rubies and emeralds.
In 20117 he said that the chest weighs 20 pounds (9 kilograms) and its contents weigh another 22 pounds (10 kilograms). He said he delivered the chest to its hiding place by himself over two separate trips.
Asked how he felt now that the treasure has been found, Fenn said: “I don’t know, I feel halfway kind of glad, halfway kind of sad because the chase is over.”
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LOTTERY PLAYER’S LUCKY NUMBERS PAY OFF AFTER NEARLY 40 YEARS (06/03/2020)
Sometimes consistency really pays off. A man from Queensland, Australia told The Lott officials that he purchased a ticket for the May 30th Saturday Gold Lotto drawing that had the same numbers he’s been using to play lottery games for nearly forty years.
The ticket won him $341,507.65. He said he and his wife, who both recently retired, will likely use the money to buy a new home and to go on vacation when things return to normal in the world.
MONDAY JUNE 8TH
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[80] Nancy Sinatra, singer
[54] Julianna Margulies, actress (“The Good Wife” 2009-16, “ER” 1994-2000)
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- 1. A Saratoga Springs Florida man is battling his HOA over Christmas lights that were supposed to be taken down by March 1st. He claims that the blue lights he has up on his house are meant to honor the medical workers and first responders battling COVID-19.
- • “The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever!” (ABC): Reliving the dramatic moments of Sean Lowe’s season, including Tierra’s explosive fallout with AshLee, the confrontational hometown visit with Desiree and the devastating moment Lindsay realized she would not be getting the proposal she hoped for.
- “The Titan Games: (NBC): Competitors face off in three-way battles with the winners advancing to a head-to-head challenge; the last athletes standing must defeat reigning Titans Joe Thomas and Dani Speegle on Mt. Olympus to advance to the championship.
- Here’s Jerry Seinfeld from his new Netflix special on how excited he was for the invention of Pop-Tarts. (From 2020’s “23 Hours to Kill”)
- During the “Dear Class of 2020” special, Jimmy Kimmel offered up some advice to the graduates. “Never show up late with a coffee in your hand.”
No winning ticket was sold for the $20 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.
That means the jackpot for the next draw on June 9 will grow to approximately $25 mi
No winning ticket was sold for the $5-million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw.
However, the guaranteed $1-million prize went to a ticket holder in Quebec.
The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on June 10 will be approximately $6 million.
SAM HUNT ‘INSTANTLY INSPIRED’ BY WEBB PIERCE TRACK
Sam Hunt‘s latest hit, “Hard To Forget,” was written around a sample of a Webb Pierce song that his co-writer, Luke Laird, brought to him. They were in a writing session working on something else when Luke mentioned this sample and offered to play it for Sam. They stopped everything and listened, and as Sam tells us EXCLUSIVELY, they immediately set out to write the song that would showcase this bit of music. [“He pulled it up and he played it and I was just instantly inspired by it and instantly knew that we had to write a song to that track and he essentially has sampled the Webb Pierce song. I’d been looking for the perfect sample and that was it. As soon as I heard it I knew it was the one, but I can’t take credit for it. That was Luke’s idea.”]
CHRIS JANSON IS HAVING THE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS HE DREAMED OF
Chris Janson is climbing the charts with what he hopes will be his career fourth Number One hit with “Done.” He reached the goal that he and his wife and manager, Kelly, had set of charting three Number Ones with “Good Vibes,” and now Chris tells us he hopes to continue this streak of commercial success, the only thing that really matters to him. [“I just remember sitting with Kelly years ago. We were like, ‘Man, if we could just get three Number Ones. We’d really turn the corner,’ so now we’re here and we’re stringing them together and I feel like the stronger you get like that the better odds you have so I’m hoping ‘Done’ will do that for us, and I’ve said it from the beginning — all I ever wanted to be was on the radio, so I’m getting to do that and I’m getting to do it in a big way and commercial success is the only thing I ever wanted ever. I really don’t care about the other parts of it as much.”]
“Done” is the second single from Chris’s 2019 Real Friends album. He wrote it about his wife.
BRAD PAISLEY REWARDS PAIR OF FRIENDS WITH BEER, ZOOM CALL
Brad Paisley paid a surprise digital visit to best friends Benjamin Smith and Marcus Ellis who hosted a driveway get-together with a simple offer to the Rochester, NY community – “Black or white, relax and have a beer.” Rochesterfirst.com reports that their “powerful image of a white man and a black man clinking bottles and sharing a beer, spread like wildfire on social media.” The wildfire made its way to Brad, who so loved what they were doing that he had hundreds of dollars worth of beer shipped directly to their house and followed up with a surprise Zoom call.
Brad said, “I’m so inspired by you, and we thought we should deliver more beer than you could possibly drink . . .This is going to be a popular destination on this street.”
He treated the men to a performance of his latest single, appropriately titled “No I In Beer,” and even stayed on the Zoom call for about 30 minutes to be a part of the block party.
